You guys want to know what it all REALLY boils down to??
Many people have gone with the popular perception that guns are just evil. Nobody has any legit reason to own one and anyone who claims they do have a reason to own a gun is some nut job. Then you have the ever so popular "Guns are designed to kill people" That's my personal favorite by the way. Of course there is the, "Only the military and police should have guns."
OK lets establish some general facts here. Over 80 MILLION firearms are in the possesion of citizens in this country. Out of that 80 million, how many are used in a crime every year? I'll be generous here and call it 1% and that's high and everyone knows it. Now out of that 1% how many of those guns were purchased legally and then used to commit a violent crime? Again I'll be generous and say maybe 25%. The rest of those are commited by criminals in the first place that got their guns illegally. These criminals use fully automatic weapons that the law abiding public doesn't have access too, or are guns that they stole while commiting a previous crime, or bought from their gang banger buddy who stole it.
So if you follow me on this, most gun crimes are commited by criminals in the first place so any laws that are passed really don't matter to them at all, and then you have a small portion of crimes that are commited by someone who legally purchased a gun and then lost their mind and went nuts i.e. guy walks in on his wife and her lover and he blows them away. Then you have the occasional situation such as VT where someone was known to be a disturbed person and he fell through the cracks of the system and did what he did. And last but not least the occasional firearm accident where some kid gets a hold of dads pistol and either shoots himself or his friend, and that's such a small percentage of gun incidents it's really not even worth mentioning but for the bleeding heart liberals I'll include it.
So we have all these guns floating around in this country and yet for the most part they are owned by good upstanding law abiding citizens who keep them locked up in gun cabinets and safes. Everything is fine until, OH NO!!!!! Someone got shot today. The media likes to talk about the shooting and what kind of gun was used and then all the anti gun folks jump up and point at the incident and say "BAN THEM ALL!!!!" and if the public is lucky they get a 2 second blurb about the person that pulled the trigger and 9 times out of 10 that person has a criminal record a mile long. The media doesn't want you to know about that though. It doesn't matter that most gun crimes are commited by someone who has shown a long record of disregarding the law, they just want to show you that a gun killed someone.
OK be that as it may, how many people are killed or maimed on the roads every day in this country because some idiot was talking on his cell phone while driving and wasn't paying attention to what they were doing? Or they were putting on their makeup, or eating their lunch, or typing on their laptop, or watching their portable TV (yes I've seen that one). In this country you are at least 100 times more likely to get killed in a car accident than you are of getting shot by a gun.
How many people are killed or maimed every year by a doctor? More people than are killed by a gun.
The liberal anti gun crowd doesn't want to get rid of guns because they are bad. They want to get rid of guns because that is the only thing preventing them from taking over this country and then deciding what everyone can and can't do according to their theories of life.
The Second Ammendment was put there for a reason. The reason is this.
Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun. Plain and simple. This country was founded on the belief that the power of the government comes from the governed i.e. the people. An armed population retains the political power of the government, and the ablility to dispose of that government if it tries to remove the power from the people. Those in government "service" that would take away your right to own a gun will not stop there. Once the power to overthrow the government is removed, that government can do whatever it wants at that point with no fear of reprisal from the people. That is called a dictatorship folks.
Guns in our country is not the problem. The only reason this country was brought about was because the citizens had their guns and used them to throw off a dictorial government and establish the form of government we have now.
This country of ours is the ONLY government in the world where EVERY law abiding citizen has the RIGHT to own a firearm. The founding fathers knew then that it's the right of every citizen to retain and exercise the political power to keep the government in check. Freedom REQUIRES the citizens to exercise that power.
Those that want to take away that right do not believe that the average citizen has the ability nor the right to exercise political power.
For those that don't like guns, well you also have the RIGHT to not own one. It's your choice. You have the FREEDOM to decide on your own if you will own a gun or not. What the anti gun folks do not have the right to do however is dictate our rights to those of us that do own guns.
So......if a citizen of this county goes out and buys a gun, that citizen is exercising their rights under the Constitution and by doing so they are taking personal responsiblity to retain political power unto themselves and not rely on the government to protect them or take care of them. That is advanced citizenship and with it come a moral responsability to use that power correctly.
Now for the anti gun crowd, do you really think you have the right to deny me my rights because the media, and Hollywood like to talk about how evil guns are? Should I have to give up my rights because some criminal used a gun while commiting a crime? Well what about that same criminal that uses a car to flee from the police, causes an accident and kills someone with their car while they were braking the law? I say BAN ALL CARS!!!! We can go back to riding horses. Wouldn't bother me at all, I love horses. Sure would save alot of money for gas now wouldn't it?
So I tell you anti gunners this. Give up your vehicles and I'll give up my guns. Seems only fair since the soccer mom anti gun nuts are going to kill more people this year with their cars than us pro gun nuts will with our guns.
